Last week, Donald Trump chose Betsy DeVos to be his Education Secretary, in charge of the United States Department of Education. Given her history, there is little doubt that she will be working to weaken the separation of church and state in the US, promoting what is essentially a Dominionist plan to funnel public funds into Christian schools. Praise the Lord!

DeVos is a religious conservative who has pushed for years to breach the wall between church and state on education, among other issues.* (The Washington Post reports that Betsy DeVos has been an elder at Mars Hill, in Grand Rapids.) Betsy, who served as the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party in the late nineties and again in the early aughts, spent more than two million dollars of the family’s money on a failed school-vouchers referendum in 2000, which would have allowed Michigan residents to use public funds to pay for tuition at religious schools. The family then spent thirty-five million dollars, in 2006, on Dick DeVos’s unsuccessful campaign to unseat Jennifer Granholm, then the Democratic governor of the state. After that campaign, the DeVos family doubled down on political contributions and support for conservative Christian causes. Members of the family, including Betsy and Dick DeVos, have spent heavily in opposition to same-sex-marriage laws in several states.

"I think this is the prettiest world -- as long as you don't mind a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn't have its splash of happiness?" from The Kingfisher, by Mary Oliver

Trump really just wants to run the country into the ground, I see. So much for the 'moderate' Trump narrative that so many people wanted to construct post-election to tell people like me to calm down. Nope. Trump is going to go all out to make his presidency a nightmare.

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Icon Image by Cherubunny on Tumblr"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony